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Full Fathom Five Digital, an eBook imprint headed by A Million Little Pieces author James Frey, is hosting a fiction contest. One grand prize winner will receive $10,000.
The judges intend to name four finalists; those participants will be offered a guaranteed publishing deal. Depending on the quality of the submissions, the organizers may present a publishing contract to non-finalists as well.
Only manuscripts that contain 50,000 words or more will be accepted; writers can turn in either original unpublished stories or self-published books. A deadline has been set for November 30, 2014. Follow this link to learn about all the rules.
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Matt Stone (South Park, The Book of Mormon), Anne Garefino (co-executive producer of South Park, The Book of Mormon) and author James Frey gathered together this week at a party in New York to toast The Book of Mormon co-producer Kevin Morris on his literary debut with White Man’s Problems.
The self-published title came out earlier this year on Amazon. The book includes nine short stories, each one about a different man "whose outward success masks inner turmoil that complicates their lives and often baffles those around them."
Check it out: "Stories such as 'Mulligan’s Travels,' about an LA banker’s uncelebrated return home from New York, and 'White Man's Problems,' the comedic chronicle of a dubious father on a school trip to Washington, DC, exemplify Kevin Morris’s poignant, clever, and entirely entertaining style."
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David Guterson has won the Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Literature Award for his novel, Ed King. The shortlist included books by Lee Child, Haruki Murakami and James Frey.
Washington Post book critic Ron Charles actually predicted the win in his review of the novel in early November.
Here’s more from Charles’ review: “I wouldn’t blame you for skipping this book entirely, but if you must, turn to page 236. What follows are three pages that might very well win the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex Award, including my personal ‘ick’ moment: ‘Ed smelled vulnerably digestive.’”
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The non-fiction author has all kinds of worries. He may get his facts seriously wrong, in a very public forum. His books may not sell. Even if his books do sell, he may be sued for libel (the print version of slander), especially in Europe. And, in the past few years, a new threat
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I went to the MoMA and…”saw a coat closet trash and two water fouintains I’m very disapointed I did not see a dinosaur you call your self a museum!” [MoMA]
Cute alert: Goose looks after blind dog [Metro]
Apparently, James Frey will be a guest on the final Oprah [NYPost]
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CHART: Gay marriage opponents now in minority [FiveThirtyEight]
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Last Friday, I challenged all of our readers to write a sestina. I expect many of you discovered just how difficult this form can be. I’d like to highlight the poem I received from Paul Gallear of Wolverhampton, UK. Paul is one of the voices behind the Artsy Does It blog and you can follow him @paulgallear.
I’m a dirty-shirted mess.
My eyes are heavy and thick
With fatigue; I’ve not slept for days
And I’ve never been so tired.
All I need to do is sleep,
Long and deep and numb.
My thoughts are thoughtless, numb;
My skin, greasy; my hair, a mess.
Things change without sleep:
I’ve become listless, thick
And stupid – I’m idiot tired,
Living in a stunned daze.
Time moves from hours to days
And perspective becomes numb.
Beyond tired.
My mind begins to mess
Around. There’s a kind of thick
Which only comes from lack of sleep.
I daydream of sleep.
Waiting – the hours the days
Crawl as though caught in thick
Honey, drowsy, lethargic and numb.
While they are mired in that mess,
I grow more weary, more tired.
One day, I won’t be tired.
The time will come for sleep.
When I am enough of a mess,
And my dignity went days
Ago, I won’t care. I’ll be numb
And sleep will be long and thick.
I hope the night is black and thick
And that even the moon and the stars are tired.
They can make their lights numb
And pale to help me sleep.
The sun will shorten the days
To help me out of this mess
If the night is thick, I’ll sleep.
I’m so tired, it’ll be for days.
Until then, I’m one numb mess.
Novelist James Frey will return to Oprah Winfrey‘s television show for the first time since she criticized him onstage for fabrications in his memoir, A Million Little Pieces.
Frey (pictured, via) has just self-published his new novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.
The NY Post has the scoop from an anonymous source: “Oprah apologized to James a couple of years ago, and he appreciated it. So he agreed to go back on her show and talk about everything that’s happened over the last five years.”
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Joining a long line of controversial writers and artists, James Frey will self-publish The Final Testament of the Holy Bible on Good Friday (April 22)–a “radical book” about a gritty Messiah.
The book will add a new Testament to the Bible, telling the story of a Messiah born in the Bronx. In an unusual partnership, art gallery owner Larry Gagosian will print 11,000 copies of the book and Frey (pictured, via) will sell the book online as well. Frey has made headlines all year with his fiction factory and the YA novel he co-wrote, I Am Number Four.
Here’s more from the New York Post: “His Messiah, Ben Jones, starts off as a lonely alcoholic bachelor living in a filthy apartment. He survives a horrific work accident, but strange things then happen that lead to him being recognized as the Messiah. Ben also smokes pot, has sex with a prostitute and makes out with men.” (Via Publishers Lunch)
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How do you photograph an imaginary author?
Novelist James Frey and Jobie Hughes co-wrote I Am Number Four under the pseudonym of “Pittacus Lore.” The author photo for the imaginary author of the YA book is pictured above (via Howard Huang)–click to enlarge. What do you think of Frey’s first offering from his fiction factory?
Here’s more from the official site: “I am Pittacus Lore. I am from the Planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away. I am one of ten Elders who lived on our planet. I am ten thousand years old. Everyone on Lorien was gifted. We are incredibly strong, incredibly fast, and we are born with powers called legacies. Despite our powers, the Elders, responsible for the defense of our planet, failed.”
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A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by Armadillo, the Online Independent Children's Book Magazine, to review a book for teenagers. I don't know if the review is up yet, but home is
http://www.armadillomagazine.com/ - for reviews, author interviews, and much, much more. If you don't already go there, you really should check it out. Anyway, the book arrived and I began to read.
SF/fantasy is not my favourite genre - so easy to do badly - and this seemed to be a kind of
Twilight with Aliens. It was sloppily written with every fantasy cliche jammed in there from Tolkien to, oh, anyone you like to think of, by way of Marvel Comics,
Star Trek and
Avatar. Suffice it to say, I didn't like it much. More than that, I
thought there was something wrong with it. It was as if I wasn't reading a novel, as much as a novelisation - a print version of a film, or a comic, or a video game. It was written under a
pseudonym,
purportedly that of an alien. It certainly read that way. It seemed destined for great things, however,
soon to be a major motion picture, a sticker said on the cover, the focus of an aggressive publicity campaign. Recently, I saw it has been picked out as a 'teen book of the year' in a major newspaper. So who am I to say? All I know was that it was not a book for me, and it didn't read quite right.
Some weeks later, I saw an article in the Guardian about bad boy American author, James Frey (the one who upset Oprah when she found out that his autobiography was, at least in part, fictional). He is in trouble again, it seems, for setting up a Fiction Factory, employing unknowns to churn out books to order - one of which is the one I read for Armadillo. I felt vindicated. I knew there was something wrong about it! He defends himself by citing artists like Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons who come up with a concept and leave it to others to do the hard work. There seems to be a difference. Like these artists or not, the concept is often startling and original. The same cannot be said of the Fiction Factory, if the product that I sampled is anything to go by. And yet, and yet... major motion picture, ad campaign, reviews, Waterstone's placement, how many real writers of genuinely original fantasy fiction get that kind of treatment? Even more disconcerting is the idea of relays of energetic wannerbes churning out books one after another. How many writers of series fiction could keep up with that? And if writing style, storytelling ability and originality no longer matter, how long before we have e writers as well as e readers, cyberbots producing books at the click of a mouse?
It will be fiction, Jim, but not as we know it...
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Recently, former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, addressed the W&L Journalism Ethics Institute for its 48th anniversary. This prompted a debate around the water cooler and on blogs and made its way to discussions on news programs. For, if you remember, Blair resigned from the New York Times in 2003 following an investigation that found he had plagiarized and fabricated a lot of the stories he had written for the paper. Some of his reporting was on the Iraq war and the Beltway sniper attacks. It was understandable that people were surprised that Blair would be addressing the Journalism Ethics Institute because we trust reporters to tell us the truth. We don’t expect them to fabricate or edit stories to make them more entertaining, as Blair did.
What about memoir authors who fabricate stories? James Frey and the debacle involving A Million Little Pieces comes to mind. Frey received a lot of attention from his book when it was published--Oprah praised him, A Million Little Pieces was in a million little bookstores, everyone talked highly of this new talented writer. But upon investigation, Frey’s story was proven to be inaccurate in parts, and some readers who had once been fans of the memoir wanted their money back.
Some authors don’t really care about the difference between fiction and nonfiction. A story might just be a story. But is it unfair to truthful memoir writers when an author, such as James Frey, fabricates tales to sell books? Does it prove that Frey is a talented writer that we believed his tales? Or is it infuriating to have loved a book as a memoir and find parts of it to be complete fiction?
How much tweaking should be allowed in memoirs to make them entertaining these days, and do you care about the difference between fiction and nonfiction storytelling?
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I find this sad and alarming, Celia. I too had a book to review recently - another fantasy in fact - which I turned down because I couldn't have said a positive thing about it. It wasn't only the poor writing and the cliches, it was the way in which 'good' characters could be as violent and unpleasant as they liked, so long as they were doing it to the 'bad' ones. It was an ignorant, nasty piece of work which could only help to give fantasy a bad name.
It's frightening that such rubbish is being published and marketed to children and young adults. Junk food - with all sorts of nasty e-numbers - for the brain.
I've read a lot of blogs about this and, I have to say, I have nothing to say against Frey for the Million Little Pieces debacle. But this is the first post that has so starkly analysed the relation of what Frey is doing to the art world (to show how dim I've been before I read this I hadn't equated Fiction *Factory* with an attempt to be Andy). It's a brief but excellent comparison. I love Koons. And Thomas Heatherwick, and a whole host of other artists who have large production teams working for them. And I run a literary gallery that hosts exhibitions that present fiction in a manner normally saved for art (we even have our live shows at a local gallery in Oxford) so I love exploring the myriad overlaps between literature and art. And, er, this isn't one of them! Artists (I remember as a teenager seeing a really scathing article on pop art guru Mark Kostabi and his slogan "they work in cages for minimum wages") DO get rounded on for exploitation. Sometimes rightly so. But in most cases, there is a production team because the artwork is big, and the whole thing works like architecture (you'd hardly chastise Norman Foster for getting the builders in). And besides, art workshops are as old as art itself, especially for large scale art.
This, to repeat, isn't like that. For exactly the reason you say. This isn't a creative auteur hiring technicians to realise their vision (the relation it bears to Warhol's Factory on the other hand, I'll leave for biographers to pick over - and they will, the parallels are rife). It's more like a celeb endorsement, like a jar of Lloyd Grossman sauce. And like such things, I guess it'll stand or fall by the pull of Frey's name. Hmmm...
I find this very sad, not only for the reasons mentioned but because you feel somehow that a real book has been not-published, or at least, not published as well and carefully as it should be because of such stuff being so ubiquitous. Most disheartening, really. Thanks for drawing it to our attention, Celia.
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Yes, Mary - I was thinking the same thing. Isn't this just book packaging, as has been done for yonks by WP and others? The mystery is, how is it getting lauded as 'book of the year', etc. The innovation seems to be in the marketing rather than the production.
This irritates me greatly. It leaves less room for my carefully arranged cat hairs to ever see the shelves of a bookshop!
I hate to say this, but do wonder if the "Books For Boys" movement - while being a laudable idea in itself - isn't promoting a certain style of writing as being "what children want."
Or what people think readers want? Not always the same thing. Sometimes, these cynical moves founder. Let us hope so, anyway.
Thanks for the posts. Interesting discussion and something that needs airing - nobody likes to feel that they are being exploited or taken for a fool.